{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Visual Analog Representations for Natural Languages Understanding","authors":[{"name":"David L. Waltz","slug":"david-l-waltz","given":"David L.","family":"Waltz","affiliation":""},{"name":"Lois C. Boggess","slug":"lois-c-boggess","given":"Lois C.","family":"Boggess","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In order i'or a natural language system to trul y \"know what it is talkin g ahoul ,\"it must havt· a ·· oniH '<\" tion to th•• r ea l-world correlates of lan g uage. l'or lan g ua ge d esc rihin )', physical ohjects and their relations in a scene, a visual analog representation of the scene ca n provide a u sef ul target stru ct ure to he shared by a lan g uage understanding sy st e m and a co mputer vi . sion system. This pap t> r discusses th e ge neration of visual analog repr e s e ntations from input l·: nglish senL<'IH't'S. IL also dt·scrihes th e op e ration of a I.T S I' program whi c h generate -s su c h a r e pre se ntati'\"' [rom s imple l·: nglish sentences d e scrihing a scene. A sequ e nce of sentences ca n r es ult in a lairly e Laborat e model. The program can th e n answer questions ahottt r e lationships betwe e n the ohje c ts, even though the relationships in qu e stion may not have been explicit in th e ori)~ illal s cP nP des c ription. R<·sults suggest that the dir ec t testin g of visual analo g r e presenta1 ion s ma y he an important way to by pass long c hains of reasoning and t.o thu s avoid the co mbill; ll i'\"'''' prohl<'ms inlwn•nt in su c h reasoning methods.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/205","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0205.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/205.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/205","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":205,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}